TWEET OF THE WEEK: Eusebius McKaiser’s DA bias
Athol Trollip has bent over backwards to keep the Nelson Mandela Bay coalition from falling apart, while the UDM has behaved badly
Welcome to Tweet of the Week. Every Friday I will use this column to hand out an award to one person who has tweeted something of significance. There are no strict rules, only that the tweet in question must offer an important insight, define a debate (notorious or otherwise) or mark an occasion. This week the Tweet of the Week goes to @AtholT for:"There comes a time to put principle and truth first. After eight months of trying to deal with this, we had to say so far and no further." Profile: Athol Trollip is the DA executive mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay and the party’s federal chairperson. He has some 16.4k followers on Twitter. His tweet refers to the recent decision to remove UDM deputy mayor Mongameli Bobani from his position in the coalition government, after months of acrimony. Citation: Speaking on 702 this week, political analyst Lukhona Mnguni had the following to say about the current situation in Nelson Mandela Bay: "What creates a problem, and especially in Nelson Mandel...
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